Anyone here do website design?

Wolf Blitzer CNNs' Late Edition March 1999 "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Sorry, my bad, he "created" the internet. Guess we were both wrong.

and i was jokeing of course

WOW! Trip down memory lane... Anyone ever loose a gopher? And I still use Usenet just about everyday. Man I can remember what I felt the first time I saw a "real" picture on a Website, That was the day I decided to become a website designer (or builder I think we called it then) I played with some HTML and decided I would go to college and learn this stuff for real... After being laughed at by every college and university within a reasonable distance to me (Get a real job, the Internet is not a job, I think that's what they all told me...LOL) The the chat programs like FREETEL and eventually AOL came along (AOL$9.95 dialup a month for 2 hours of access)

Anyway I became a master of HTML and amazed my friends, eventually moving to graphic design and later SQL, finally landing on PHP and MySQL with some CSS, HTML and a few other acronyms.... Then I burned out and left the business 10 years later.

Thanks for the memories from the past, the non-commercial Internet was a blast while it lasted

It is kind of funny you bring this up.

Really, it makes me sad when I think about it.

I think sometime in early '93, I met a gal who took me to a party. We got there, and the husband of the hostess was talking about a service that he could get on his computer.

I cannot, for the life of me, remember what he refered to it as. The internet? Information Superhighway?

Anyway, he talked about a 'bulletin board' where you read what other people had written. I was dumbfounded, and to be honest, just plain dumb about the whole thing.

"Why would you ever want to sit and read what someone had written?" I kept asking myself. And my simple brain could not wrap around the idea that the bulletin board was virtual, and not physical. "And this information comes through your phone line???" Unconcievable to me at that time.

He actually invited me back to experience it first hand, but since I had just met him, and was 60 miles away, and long distance(!), I never took him up on his offer.

I look back now and realize that when a few of my college friends insisted "this is going to be HUGE if Congress ever lets it happen", I know they were right.

How is that for an "early internet days" story?

Clove